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# Not pleased with Wyner
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/not-pleased-with-wyner-editor/
- Published: 2004-11-02T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T05:24:13.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Downtown, #archive-import

*By Bill Bauer Santa Monica*

Ouch! Such hostility! Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee’s Jean McNeil Wyner’s letter to the Daily Press (SMDP, Oct. 30-31, page 6) whining about my endorsement is unfortunate.

She accused me and David Cole of stealing or buying a free, publicly available list of e-mail addresses. Sorry, Jean, we didn’t steal or buy anything. The list which included members of the business community is not hers or the Chamber of Commerce’s exclusive property. So stop with the ignorant assumptions, please.

I suspect that her rancor is really masking her frustration that Matteo Dinolfo, whose City Council campaign she manages, didn’t get the coveted Santa Monica Daily Press endorsement for City Council and I did. It’s all a big bunch of very sour grapes.

Wyner is also upset that an e-mail sent by us to a broad selection of local business persons criticized two Chamber of Commerce-supported candidates. The e-mail contained quotes from Herb Katz and Matteo Dinolfo, as printed in the Daily Press and elsewhere, that said they favored expanded services for transients primarily in the downtown area and a more universally applied living wage.

In our e-mail, we said we opposed anything that might exacerbate the vagrancy problem, opposed a city minimum wage and favored a more friendly small business environment. We asked for votes and support.

Katz’ and Dinolfo’s statements have been documented and widely disseminated, yet Wyner says they are “lies” because we used them in an e-mail to a list she mistakenly assumes is proprietary. It’s Wyner who is wrong.

Jean McNeil Wyner was and still is an active member of the Chamber’s Political Action Committee, which endorsed four candidates for City Council. As Dinolfo’s campaign manager, she worked hard to secure his endorsement. I was not endorsed by the chamber, despite knockout interviews and dozens of my “negative” writings and columns linked on the chamber’s Web site.

After she misrepresented the facts, she resorted to calling me “mean spirited” and carped about my “constant negativity.” These are scurrilous words coming from the public relations director of UCLA/Santa Monica hospital where she and the candidate she manages are both employed in management positions.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 2, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/110204.pdf?ref=smdp.com)